The ITAM Roundup: 10/16/23
Here's some useful articles and news from around the web in the land of IT Asset management.
5 Costly Mistakes in Infrastructure Outsourcing (UpperEdge)
Mistakes in outsourcing your managed service provider can derail your efforts, erode your business case, and start you off on the wrong foot with your chosen provider. In this article by Greg Hall on UpperEdge, he warns of five crucial considerations for organizations entering outsourcing initiatives.
Five strategic IT budget planning tips for 2024 (Flexera)
IT budget season is yet again here, and looming with challenges. Inflation, supply chain dilemmas, and other road bumps continue to plague organizations and their technology spend efficiency. In this article, Flexera gives key advice based on experience with many different industry partners. For more, you can also check out their 2023 State of ITAM report (sample graphic below).
Answer This: How to control costs when licensing Windows Server 2012 ESUs for VMs (Directions on Microsoft)
It's that time of year again! Windows Server Extended Security Updates are still here and still confusing. This article covers questions that licensing managers have when navigating this complexity. This week's featured question:
"Can legacy virtual machines (VMs) running in on-premises Windows Server version 2012/R2 — regardless of the underlying Windows Server licensing — be licensed individually with extended security updates (ESUs)?"
Check out the article above for the answer.
Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M
As times have changed, so has the value of the company, but Atlassian still sees Loom and its 25 million customers, and more than 5 million video conversations per month, as a valuable asset. The company believes that it can be a useful collaboration tool for its platform, especially Jira and Confluence.
CISA, FBI urge admins to patch Atlassian Confluence immediately
CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC warned network admins today to immediately patch their Atlassian Confluence servers against a maximum severity flaw actively exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2023-22515, this critical privilege escalation flaw affects Confluence Data Center and Server 8.0.0 and later and is remotely exploitable in low-complexity attacks that don't require user interaction.
